Chelsea are showing signs of recovery. It was always going to be difficult shoe-horning all those players into a particular unit, system, a way of playing. The amount of injuries they’ve had as well is incredible, when you look at the list it’s like a team out which hasn’t been easy.
The amount of players in and out, the sheer volume, the run they’ve been on - the history of that run as well - it’s been an absolutely terrible run for a such a long period of time, not just the start of this season. It’s been a rapid decline, the win ratio over the last 12 months is horrific.
I don’t think there has been a huge change in recent games when I look at the difference in Chelsea. It just takes time on little bits of details to find a settled formula, settled system, a bit more confidence when you do win a game and go into the next one.
You win away at Fulham and then Burnley is probably a game that suited Chelsea with the ‘you play, we play’ style and I think that has suited them along the way. Even when you look at the games that were disappointing for them like Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa.
I just think it’s been a slow start, but with that squad turnaround I think it was always going to be. The players they have got now, it has got a great potential.
Michael Brown was speaking to BBC Sport’s Nicola Pearson
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